Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-24

/ PIOHeeES Will De rs stesGy iO6 y women
as their fOrerunners were, but it is no.
thought that this will be the csse
One lady, who has had D. C3iiarIv -ooe
opportunities for observation, ~ Ike,
some very interesting statements - a.
the new life on the girls. She says tia,
the girls who are earning their own Twins
are the most interesting women she
knows; the most sensible and elevated in
their speech, the least frivolous and emp
ty-headed, the best informed and the most
practical women of the time. In
business they get discipline
for the lack of which women
have heretofore suffered. Better vet, she
says, they cease to be mere dependents.
lacking confidence IN themselves and
looking forward merely 20 being provided
with home and any husband their 70
mantle vision makes appear desirable,
whether he IS or no They grow 10 nave
faith in themselves ara slilitY t. "a, a.
care OF themselves, snd this sobers them
and renders them shreWder anu more
practical in judgment.
By living and working with men Young
women grow accustomed to them, lose
their sentimental and romantic notions of
the other sex and gradually bcgir. 10 Judge
men on their merits, apart from one an
other. TIE girl Of the Old regime Saw
only men with parlOr manners, and every
one knows that silly and weak fellows
often Outshine good and ShreWd ones in
society. But in business these women see
men as they are, in their natural everyday
aspects, and they rate them according TO
the best of their power 10 Judge OF Clar
acter. 1t is this lady's experience that
the young ladies' in business marry in
yTrI- fr,f b
Of the city, and she thinks they are apttO
marry better; not only because they are
better able to select husbands, but for
Other reasons.
These other reasons ere important In
the first place she says truly that domes-
tic trouble is, next to drink, the greatest
afiliCtiOn of modern life. She finds that
the man who maTTieS 8 girl capable Of
self-suppOTt is almOst certain 10 respect
her and treat her well. He cannot say to
her, as husbands of helpless girls can.
''YOu are dependent On me; | hold your
bread and butter IN my hands" He
knows he does not and she knows ne
does not. She will not suffer abuse or
disrespect, for she is confident that she
made her own way once and she can
make it again. Happiness lasts while
mutual respect continues.
HOW MEN ARE BENEFITED.
But what is the effect on the man is the
natural thought. Ia what way is woman
What does the husband get on
his side? In what respect are wives
AS to this, my friend says the advant-
age 20 the husband is very great II is
very true that the girl in business has not
learned to bake or sew, though tAe chance
is she knew more or less about both
before going to business, but she has be-
come systematic, business like and orderly
Her mental training has better fitted her
for managing g house well than if she
could cook and Dske, and yet have no
dea of system. Better yet, she has had
her attention turned to affairs, has heard
public matters discussed and grown IL
-erested in them; knows what to reaG
and learns to like to improve her mind,
and TO take part in the serious mas
3uline conversation around her She
its herself to become a companion to
man, able to talk with him, able to under
stand what ne enjoys. The observer whom
quote fatty denies that any of the
charms or gTaces of WOmanhoOd are lost
Dy girls in business; they do not become
masculine in any degree. They remain as
eminine and gentle as before. This is
Ter experience, she herself thoroughly
it in her OWE case. No one
appreciates a home like q business VIC
nan who is forced to spend much time
way from it. TIC the woman who is al
Ways there it sometimes becomes
nOnOtOnOus.
Competition already exists or must
rise and increase in wages must follow.
But WOmen's wages are not so bad. The
ypa-writers and stenOgraphers earn from
80 to $50 week; the wages of the girls
nd women in the shopping stores range
rom So to S25. The biggest Woman's
ailor il this city and London pays the
Dung woman who designs drspery and
raiding for his lady customers S5Oa
week.
THE CHANCES OF MARRIAGE.
The manager of a large establishment
Employing some 1000 girls says that the
women who work for him marry in the
anne proportion as the women of the
anne classes who remain at home. But
is girls marry better. That is his ex-
erlenCe and their belief. He says that
raining and discipline the women get il
great store better fits them for the
of home than home train
az; it makes them self-reliant, practical,
SlCdutJ cOJC4s II IlUb
lem Of the adult lnfantllity of the petted
aughter at home, and the frivolity and
and of that abnormal senti-
Ientality that leaves so many girls prey
} the vicious. He says, too, that he
.els very certain that the moral tone of
lie woman is raised and strengthened by
lie business experience.
In one respect the novelty of the new
rider of things has seemed not yet to
ave worn off. The treatment the female
nployes receive in the downtown offices
,Ove this. They are privileged far be-
md their male associates. The girls
port that the young men are often jeal-
Is Of the treatment they receive.
hey are sent home early in the after
ION when there seems TO be
,thipg more for them TO do,
ID often full holidays are given to them,
nile male clerks equally idle are kept at
e desk. The almost invariaOle gentle
IS and Difference with which the women
e treated is resulting in more general
liteness in men towards men, and per-
ps the besutifcxtiOn of business Of
es, so notable and general now, is
rtIy result of this sOftening and pol
ling process.
Room is needed for a chapter showing
at the women VINO began as helpers IN
e forefront of this new crusade are
pidly becoming mistresses of establish
snts of their own. Their evening
udies result in constantly increasing
mber of female doctors signs, female
ntal offices, feminine art studios nd in
1Wth of q great but scarcely strong
lool of writer's for the press and the
Id OF fiction. The enterprise of these
ha- il
ge shops in this city owned by women,
2 Of whom has ms d. { zoo anO in milf